Dagobert Kohlmeyer

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Dagobert Kohlmeyer 2005 in Dortmund

Dagobert Kohlmeyer (born May 23, 1946 in Jena ) is a German journalist , translator and photographer who mainly deals with chess topics.

Life

Dagobert Kohlmeyer in 1988 with Anatoli Karpow in Berlin

Kohlmeyer studied German and Slavic studies in the GDR and is therefore proficient in Russian. He began his chess journalistic activity in 1981 as a participant in the Kurt Richter memorial tournament with a tournament report for the East Berlin magazine Schach .

Since then he has published reports and photographs of numerous major chess events in the chess press and in his own books.

During the competition between Boris Spasski and Bobby Fischer , which took place in 1992 on the Yugoslav island of Sveti Stefan and in Belgrade, Kohlmeyer was present at both venues. While walking on the beach in Sveti Stefan, he was captured by Montenegrin guards and detained, interrogated and threatened with death for a day. After his release, an apology appeared in the tournament bulletin. Since that competition, Kohlmeyer has been the correspondent for the German Press Agency for Chess.

Dagobert Kohlmeyer in 1990 with the then Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker
Sergej Karjakin and Dagobert Kohlmeyer in the press center of the Dortmund Chess Days 2004
Dagobert Kohlmeyer with Michail Gorbatschow at the Chess World Cup in Moscow 2012

Since 1990 he has been working in the press center of the Dortmund Chess Days every year and reports in pictures and words about what is happening on site. At the 2008 Chess Olympiad in Dresden he also worked as a journalist and wrote a book about them.

In addition to reporting on chess, Kohlmeyer also conducted interviews with athletes such as Heike Drechsler , Carl Lewis and Sergej Bubka as well as politicians associated with chess such as Michail Gorbatschow , Richard von Weizsäcker , Otto Schily and Wolfgang Schäuble .

Kohlmeyer has translated over forty books from Russian, including works by Vasily Smyslow , Anatoli Karpow , Garri Kasparow , Alexei Suetin , Gennady Nessis , Jakob Neistadt , Viktor Kortschnoi , Artur Jussupow and Mark Dvoretski .

Honors

Dagobert Kohlmeyer was awarded the German Chess Prize by the German Chess Federation in 2006.

In July 2014 he became honorary correspondent for the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting for life.

Works

  • Bobby Fischer: A chess genius returns , Beyer, Hollfeld 1992.
  • The double world championship , Rochade Europa, Maintal 1993.
  • Pure Sicilian , Bock and Kübler, Berlin 1995.
  • How do you beat the world champion? , Insel, Frankfurt / M. 1995.
  • Duel in den Wolken , Bock and Kübler, Berlin 1995.
  • 23rd International Dortmund Chess Days together with Jerzy Konikowski and Andreas Krois, Beyer, Hollfeld 1995.
  • 24th International Dortmund Chess Days together with Jerzy Konikowski and Andreas Krois, Beyer, Hollfeld 1996.
  • Schachelite in Vienna , Bock and Kübler, Berlin 1996.
  • Duel in the steppe , Bock and Kübler, Berlin 1996.
  • Schachelite in Dortmund , Bock and Kübler, Berlin 1997.
  • Chess Roulette in Monte Carlo , Bock and Kübler, Berlin 1997.
  • Chess rally in Monte Carlo , Bock and Kübler, Berlin 1998.
  • World champions teach chess (Ed.), Beyer, Hollfeld 2004.
  • Chess Olympiad Dresden 2008 , Jugendschachverlag, Dresden 2008.
  • Learning from chess giants together with Jerzy Konikowski , Beyer, Hollfeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-88805-434-1 .
  • Chess curious , Marlon Verlag, Moers 2012.
  • World champions teach chess (new edition), Beyer, Eltmann 2013, ISBN 978-3-940417-39-8 .
  • Bobby Fischer - Genius between fame and madness , Beyer, Eltmann 2013, ISBN 978-3-940417-18-3 .
  • Great chess , Marlon Verlag, Moers 2013.
  • Magnus Carlsen ... came, pulled and won , Beyer, Eltmann 2014, ISBN 978-3-940417-57-2 .
  • Chess nuts to crack , Marlon Verlag, Moers 2014.
  • The successful attack on the king , together with Jerzy Konikowski, Beyer, Eltmann 2015, ISBN 978-3-940417-81-7 .
  • Mozart plays chess , Marlon Verlag, Moers 2015.
  • Game of kings, poems - serious and cheerful , BoD, Norderstedt 2016.
  • Attack! - Great attackers in chess history , Chaturanga publishing house, Neunkirchen 2016.
  • Chess Whispers - 64 cheerful poems , Chaturanga Verlag, Neunkirchen 2017.
  • Chess quartets - 64 exercises and studies , Chaturanga publishing house, Neunkirchen 2017.
  • Aphorisms - True and absurd sayings , BoD, Norderstedt 2018.
  • Polar bear and penguin - poems for children , Maya & Paul Verlag, Penzing 2019.
  • Love for Chess - Famous People and the Puzzle, Chaturanga Verlag, Nohen 2019 .

Translations (selection)

  • Mark Dworetzki and Artur Jussupow : Effective Endgame Training (1996), Beyer, Hollfeld 2004.
  • Viktor Kortschnoi, My Life for Chess , Edition Olms, Zurich 2004.
  • Anatoli Karpow, My best games , Edition Olms, Zurich 2006.
  • Wassili Smyslow, Secrets of the Rook Endgame , Edition Olms, Zurich 2006.
  • Karpow / Mazukewitsch, Position Assessment and Plan , Edition Olms, Zurich 2007.

Web links

Commons : Dagobert Kohlmeyer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cathy Forbes : Bobby Fischer, the Holy Grail - A Balkan Odyssey , in Chess Life Magazine , March 1993, pages 26-27 (217-218), reproduced on Chessmaniacs.com
personal data
SURNAME Kohlmeyer, Dagobert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chess journalist, translator and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena